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shuffle
English
Etymology
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???f?l/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
shuffle (plural shuffles)
- The act of shuffling cards.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Quotations
- 1995, Mel Kernahan, White savages in the South Seas, Verso, page 113:
- As I lay there listening to the strange night sounds, I hear the shuffle of someone creeping by outside in the grass.
- 2003, Edmund G. Bansak & Robert Wise, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, McFarland, page 394:
- She has a crippled leg, and every time she walks we hear the shuffle of her crinoline skirt and the thumping of her cane.
- 2008, Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 148:
- Around her, she could hear the shuffle of her own hands, disturbing the shelves.
Derived terms
- lost in the shuffle
Translations
Verb
shuffle (third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
Synonyms
- (walk without picking up one's feet): shamble
Derived terms
Translations
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English shuffle.
Verb
shuffle (present tense shuffler, simple past and past participle shufflet)
- to shuffle (including dancing the shuffle, playing shuffleboard)
References
- “shuffle_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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glide
English
Etymology
From Middle English gliden, from Old English gl?dan, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *??leyd?-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??la?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Verb
glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or glidden or (archaic) glode)
- (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):
- The river glideth at his own sweet will:
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI:
- The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, in Poems, in Two Volumes (Sonnet 14):
- (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
- (transitive) To cause to glide.
- (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
Synonyms
- (to move effortlessly): coast, slide
Translations
Noun
glide (plural glides)
- The act of gliding.
- (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
- Synonyms: semivowel, semiconsonant
- (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
- A bird, the glede or kite.
- A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
- The joining of two sounds without a break.
- A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
Related terms
- glider
- gliding
- offglide, off-glide
- onglide, on-glide
Translations
Anagrams
- gelid, lidge, liged
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- glida (a infinitive)
- gli (short form)
Etymology
From Middle Low German gliden
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²?li??/
Verb
glide (present tense glid, past tense gleid, past participle glidd or glitt or glide, present participle glidande, imperative glid)
- to slip (to lose one's traction on a slippery surface)
- to glide (to move effortlessly)
References
- “glide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Volapük
Noun
glide
- dative singular of glid
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gl?da, from Proto-West Germanic *gl?dan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?dan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??lid?/, /??li?d?/
Verb
glide
- to glide, to slide
Inflection
Further reading
- “glide”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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